Jonathan Brownlee takes ITU Sprint World Championships
Jonathan Brownlee won the 2011 ITU Sprint World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland and thus successfully defended his title ahead of Javier Gomez and his older brother Alistair.
The short swim in beautiful Lake Geneva kept the Pro men's field virtually together, despite hard efforts by Richard Varga (SVE) and Vincent Luis (FRA) to spread things out.
A group of 14 athletes that included both Brownlee brothers managed to slip out of transition first and held a gap for most of the 20k bike segment. But towards the end another group of 15 athletes managed to close the gap and that brought a good sized field to the bike-run transition.
Out on the run Javier Gomez, Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee, Sven Riederer and Alexander Brukhankov quickly pulled away from the others. Just before the halfway point Gomez and Jonathan Brownlee dropped the others and charged towards the finishline. With 1k to go Gomez tried to drop the younger Brownlee, but the defending champion would not have it and sprinted past the Spaniard for the win. Alistair Brownlee finished third and now leads the ITU World Championship rankings.
Lausanne ITU Sprint Championships
Lausanne, Switzerland / August 20, 2011
750m swim / 20km bike / 5km run
Top men
1. Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 52:23
2. Javier Gomez (ESP) 52:27
3. Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 52:37
4. David Hauss (FRA) 52:42
5. Alexander Brukhankov (RUS) 52:43
6. Laurent Vidal (FRA) 52:44
7. Jonathan Zipf (GER) 52:45
8. Joao Silva (POR) 52:53
9. Christian Prochnow (GER) 52:56
10. Tony Moulai (FRA) 53:02
2011 ITU WCS ranking
1. Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 3085
2. Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 2965
3. Javier Gomez (ESP) 2858
4. Alexander Brukhankov (RUS) 2699
5. David Hauss (FRA) 2405
